"I have got what we want," answered Benedict. Then in an undertone he said to Lenhart, "Go on twenty paces, then stop."
He told Helen what had happened, and that if she wished to see her brother-in-law it would be easy to go back.
Helen chafed at the very idea of seeing her brother-in-law. He would be sure to keep her from going among the dead and wounded, and the thieves who were on the battlefield to rob the dead.
She thanked Benedict, and cried to Lenhart:
"Drive on, please!"
Lenhart whipped up his horses. They got back to Dettingen. Eleven o'clock struck as they entered the town. An immense fire was burning in the principal square. Benedict got down and went towards it. He went up to a captain who was walking up and down.
"Excuse me, captain," he said, "but do you know Baron Frederic von Bülow?"
The captain looked him up and down. It must be remembered that Benedict was still in his boatman's dress.
"Yes," he answered, "I know him, and what then?"
"Will you do him a great service?"